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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
THE Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › Section 1: The first Law.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECT. I. The first Law.
1. God the free Creator, Lord and Benefactor of the world, was pleased to make his Creatures of various ranks; and among the Rational to make Man a free undetermined self-determining Agent, not fixed by Necessity in Love and Obedience, but left with a Power of Loving and Obeying, which he could use or not use; that so he might be a fit subject of Gods Moral Government by Laws, and persuasions in this world, in order to a more fixed state of holiness. Not but that Angelical Confirmation had been better for us; But it pleased not God to compose the universe of Creatures only of the noblest order.
1. GOd the free Creator, Lord and Benefactor of the world, was pleased to make his Creatures of various ranks; and among the Rational to make Man a free undetermined self-determining Agent, not fixed by Necessity in Love and Obedience, but left with a Power of Loving and Obeying, which he could use or not use; that so he might be a fit subject of Gods Moral Government by Laws, and perswasions in this world, in order to a more fixed state of holiness. Not but that Angelical Confirmation had been better for us; But it pleased not God to compose the universe of Creatures only of the noblest order.
2. When God exerciseth only a Moral not-determining operation upon this world of Free Agents, it is not any dishonour to his Will or Power as if he could do no more; But it is his Delight thus to govern the creature according to the nature and rank which he hath made it in; and his non-volitions and non-operations of a higher sort, are agreeable to his Perfection, Wisdom and Liberty▪ Higher action being used on higher creatures.